On the NYRblog, Ian Buruma writes: “Hamaya’s distinctive documentary photographs can be usefully contrasted with his compatriot Kansuke Yamamoto’s modernist photographic collages…. A world that is now lost forever still lives in his photographs. ”

The massive Simenon oeuvre inspired its share of film adaptations. The dozen here selected are largely French, but also include Hungarian master Béla Tarr, and Phil Karlson’s first-rate noir, The Brothers Rico.

Experimental filmmaker Jem Cohen is known mainly for his unconventional documentaries, and his new film is equally difficult to characterize—neither a city symphony nor a love story nor a movie about Breugel, but a serenely eccentric way of looking.

Huey, a couture artist who has designed gowns for celebrities like Oprah and Janet Jackson, has created eight imaginative and erotic corsets, each one meant to evoke the personality of one of Aaron Burr’s eight loves.